Ministry of Citizen Protection (Greece)

The Ministry of Citizen Protection (Greek: Υπουργείο Προστασίας του Πολίτη) is a government department of Greece responsible for the running of the country's security services, i.e. the Hellenic Police, the Hellenic Fire Service, the Hellenic Coast Guard, the Greek Agrarian Police, the Secretariat for Civil Defense, and the National Intelligence Service. The current minister is Christos Papoutsis.

The ministry was established in 2009 and is a revival of the old Ministry of Public Order (Greek: Υπουργείο Δημόσιας Τάξης), which had been merged with the Ministry of the Interior in 2007 and reduced to a General Secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior and Public Order.

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List of Ministers

List of Ministers of Public Order (1974–1985)

Name Took Office Left Office Party
Solon Gikas July 24, 1974 January 5, 1976
Georgios Stamatis January 5, 1976 November 28, 1977
Anastasios Balkos November 28, 1977 May 10, 1980
Dimitrios Davakis May 10, 1980 September 17, 1981
Ioannis Katsadimas (as Acting Minister) September 17, 1981 October 21, 1981
Ioannis Skoularikis October 21, 1981 May 9, 1985 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Alexandros Floros (as Acting Minister) May 9, 1985 June 5, 1985
Athanasios Tsouras June 5, 1985 July 26, 1985 Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers of the Interior and Public Order (1985–1986)

Name Took Office Left Office Party
Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas July 26, 1985 April 25, 1986 Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers of Public Order (1986–2007)

Name Took Office Left Office Party
Antonios Drosogiannis April 25, 1986 June 22, 1988 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Anastasios Sechiotis June 22, 1988 November 8, 1988
Georgios Petsos November 18, 1988 March 17, 1989
Apostolos Tsochatzopoulos March 17, 1989 June 2, 1989
Panagiotis Markopoulos (as Acting Minister) June 2, 1989 July 2, 1989
Ioannis Kefalogiannis July 2, 1989 October 12, 1989
Dimitrios Manikas October 12, 1989 April 11, 1990
Ioannis Vassiliadis April 11, 1990 August 8, 1991 New Democracy
Theodoros Anagnostopoulos August 8, 1991 December 3, 1992 New Democracy
Nikolaos Gelestathis December 3, 1992 September 14, 1993 New Democracy
Dimitrios Manikas (as Acting Minister) September 14, 1993 October 13, 1993
Stelios Papathemelis October 13, 1993 April 4, 1995 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Iosif Valyrakis April 4, 1995 January 22, 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Kostas Geitonas January 22, 1996 August 30, 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Konstantinos Beis August 30, 1996 September 25, 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Georgios Romeos September 25, 1996 October 30, 1998 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Philippos Petsalnikos October 30, 1998 February 19, 1999 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Michalis Chrisochoidis February 19, 1999 March 10, 2004 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Georgios Voulgarakis March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006 New Democracy
Vyron Polydoras February 15, 2006 September 19, 2007 New Democracy

List of Ministers of Citizen Protection (since 2009)

Name Took Office Left Office Party
Michalis Chrisochoidis 7 October 2009 7 September 2010 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Christos Papoutsis 7 September 2010 Incumbent Panhellenic Socialist Movement

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